Proper-time acceleration by reflected laser light
ID: proper-time-acceleration-by-reflected-laser-light
An ideal receding mirror reflecting a source beam of constant power receives force after including both Doppler-shifted reflected momentum and reduced impact rate. For fixed rest mass , use in the momentum equation. It reduces to , where . Starting from rest gives . This continuum mirror model neglects individual-photon recoil and finite beam interception.
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